Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 83 50
Rank change year-on-year -37 -33 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,148 1,848 2,567
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.94% 3.33% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 3.70% 5.49%
Number of salaries quoted 778 1,029 1,972
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,446 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £96,250 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,537 49,891 46,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.05% 89.96% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 28,419 24,819 35,711
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,532 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -22 1,063 £77,500 +10.71% 3,560
London +6 599 £85,000 - 591
UK excluding London -83 491 £70,000 +7.69% 3,269
Work from Home -28 489 £75,000 +11.11% 2,089
North of England -30 215 £70,000 +12.00% 793
North West -10 114 £65,000 - 404
South East -100 96 £72,500 +3.57% 800
Yorkshire -17 85 £75,000 +22.54% 332
Midlands -17 63 £75,000 +15.38% 597
South West -55 52 £65,000 +1.96% 332
West Midlands +6 37 £71,250 +14.00% 287
Scotland -56 32 £72,500 +3.57% 169
East of England -17 28 £80,000 +39.13% 487
East Midlands -30 24 £77,500 +19.23% 272
North East -7 16 £67,500 +28.57% 57
Wales -7 5 £55,200 +10.40% 87
Northern Ireland -11 3 - - 53
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 31 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (2.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 24 (2.09%) Apache
3 24 (2.09%) Apache Spark
3 24 (2.09%) Confluence
4 13 (1.13%) OpenStack
5 10 (0.87%) Appian
5 10 (0.87%) JBoss
6 9 (0.78%) CMS
7 8 (0.70%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.52%) nginx
9 5 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.44%) IIS
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.17%) Liferay
12 1 (0.087%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.087%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.087%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.087%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (1.92%) Maya
2 14 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.35%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 17 (1.48%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.78%) Endur
2 9 (0.78%) SAP FS
3 8 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.26%) Shopify
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.087%) Actimize
7 1 (0.087%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.087%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.087%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.087%) Quorum
7 1 (0.087%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.087%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 610 (53.14%) AWS
2 550 (47.91%) Azure
3 199 (17.33%) Serverless
4 189 (16.46%) GCP
5 158 (13.76%) SaaS
6 123 (10.71%) GitHub
7 114 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (7.06%) Amazon S3
9 78 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
10 76 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
11 64 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
12 60 (5.23%) PaaS
13 54 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
14 53 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
15 48 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (3.57%) IaaS
17 38 (3.31%) Power Platform
18 37 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
19 33 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 32 (2.79%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.96%) HTTP
2 9 (0.78%) AMQP
3 5 (0.44%) Network Security
4 4 (0.35%) Internet
4 4 (0.35%) WAN
5 3 (0.26%) Broadband
5 3 (0.26%) Multicast
6 2 (0.17%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.17%) LAN
6 2 (0.17%) SNMP
6 2 (0.17%) SSL
7 1 (0.087%) MQTT
7 1 (0.087%) TCAP
7 1 (0.087%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (14.55%) NoSQL
2 161 (14.02%) PostgreSQL
3 143 (12.46%) MongoDB
4 133 (11.59%) SQL Server
5 63 (5.49%) Relational Database
6 60 (5.23%) DynamoDB
7 53 (4.62%) MySQL
8 43 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 42 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (2.53%) Redis
11 23 (2.00%) Big Data
11 23 (2.00%) Power BI
12 21 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (1.83%) RDBMS
13 17 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (1.48%) Tableau
14 15 (1.31%) DB2
15 14 (1.22%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.78%) Pinecone
17 8 (0.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 159 (13.85%) Git
2 118 (10.28%) Jenkins
3 57 (4.97%) JIRA
4 46 (4.01%) GitLab
5 42 (3.66%) JUnit
6 40 (3.48%) Selenium
7 32 (2.79%) Cucumber
8 28 (2.44%) TeamCity
9 26 (2.26%) Mockito
10 24 (2.09%) JMeter
11 22 (1.92%) Cypress.io
12 21 (1.83%) Bitbucket
13 17 (1.48%) Oracle Forms
14 13 (1.13%) CircleCI
15 12 (1.05%) Maven
16 10 (0.87%) Postman
17 9 (0.78%) LoadRunner
18 8 (0.70%) git-flow
19 7 (0.61%) Snyk
20 6 (0.52%) Robot Framework
General
1 346 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 333 (29.01%) Finance
3 114 (9.93%) Banking
4 107 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (8.71%) Law
6 67 (5.84%) Public Sector
7 56 (4.88%) Retail
8 48 (4.18%) Games
9 46 (4.01%) Financial Institution
10 35 (3.05%) Telecoms
11 31 (2.70%) French Language
12 30 (2.61%) Dutch Language
12 30 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 26 (2.26%) Billing
14 25 (2.18%) Back Office
15 24 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (2.09%) Legal
15 24 (2.09%) Marketing
16 21 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (1.39%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 400 (34.84%) Developer
2 265 (23.08%) Senior
3 237 (20.64%) Architect
4 192 (16.72%) Software Engineer
5 170 (14.81%) Lead
6 114 (9.93%) Solutions Architect
7 100 (8.71%) .NET Developer
8 98 (8.54%) Java Developer
9 90 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
9 90 (7.84%) Senior Developer
10 63 (5.49%) Senior Software Engineer
11 57 (4.97%) Java Engineer
12 55 (4.79%) Lead Developer
13 50 (4.36%) Software Developer
14 43 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 41 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
15 41 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 38 (3.31%) Lead Architect
17 35 (3.05%) Principal Engineer
18 34 (2.96%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (25.96%) .NET
2 279 (24.30%) React
3 247 (21.52%) RESTful
4 196 (17.07%) Spring
5 194 (16.90%) REST
6 179 (15.59%) Kafka
7 170 (14.81%) Spring Boot
8 144 (12.54%) Node.js
9 143 (12.46%) AngularJS
10 117 (10.19%) .NET Core
11 98 (8.54%) HTML
12 76 (6.62%) .NET Framework
13 69 (6.01%) ASP.NET
13 69 (6.01%) CSS
14 63 (5.49%) ASP.NET Web API
15 59 (5.14%) RabbitMQ
16 56 (4.88%) Entity Framework
17 55 (4.79%) Middleware
18 51 (4.44%) Django
18 51 (4.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 301 (26.22%) Cloud Native
2 172 (14.98%) Distributed Systems
3 128 (11.15%) Enterprise Software
4 99 (8.62%) Product Ownership
5 50 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (3.05%) Data Structures
8 31 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (2.61%) Algorithms
9 30 (2.61%) Virtual Team
10 25 (2.18%) Blockchain
11 23 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
12 22 (1.92%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.92%) Onboarding
13 17 (1.48%) Low-Code
14 16 (1.39%) Management Information System
14 16 (1.39%) Mobile App
15 15 (1.31%) IoT
15 15 (1.31%) Public Cloud
16 12 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 51 (4.44%) Linux
2 20 (1.74%) Android
3 19 (1.66%) Windows
4 10 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.26%) CentOS
5 3 (0.26%) Debian
5 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.087%) Fedora
7 1 (0.087%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (51.05%) Agile
2 528 (45.99%) CI/CD
3 482 (41.99%) DevOps
4 362 (31.53%) Software Engineering
5 271 (23.61%) Full-Stack Development
6 269 (23.43%) Containerisation
7 249 (21.69%) AI
8 237 (20.64%) Mentoring
9 232 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
10 205 (17.86%) Event-Driven
11 195 (16.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 184 (16.03%) Computer Science
13 157 (13.68%) TDD
14 154 (13.41%) Scrum
14 154 (13.41%) Test Automation
15 152 (13.24%) Roadmaps
16 142 (12.37%) Technical Leadership
17 132 (11.50%) Clean Code
18 127 (11.06%) Architectural Patterns
18 127 (11.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 385 (33.54%) Java
2 290 (25.26%) C#
3 289 (25.17%) Python
4 276 (24.04%) SQL
5 259 (22.56%) JavaScript
6 206 (17.94%) TypeScript
7 61 (5.31%) Go
8 35 (3.05%) Shell Script
9 29 (2.53%) PL/SQL
10 24 (2.09%) C++
10 24 (2.09%) PHP
11 21 (1.83%) C
12 19 (1.66%) Bash
13 17 (1.48%) Ruby
14 15 (1.31%) PowerShell
15 13 (1.13%) Kotlin
16 12 (1.05%) Rust
17 7 (0.61%) Scala
18 6 (0.52%) Bicep
18 6 (0.52%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 209 (18.21%) Degree
2 135 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 93 (8.10%) Security Cleared
4 68 (5.92%) SC Cleared
5 66 (5.75%) AWS Certification
6 56 (4.88%) Master's Degree
7 48 (4.18%) TOGAF Certification
8 43 (3.75%) Azure Certification
9 38 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 31 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
12 14 (1.22%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.78%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.78%) PMP
14 7 (0.61%) CISM
14 7 (0.61%) CISSP
15 5 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.26%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 2 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (7.40%) QA
2 23 (2.00%) GDPR
3 22 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.48%) PCI DSS
5 11 (0.96%) IFRS
5 11 (0.96%) SLA
6 10 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.78%) IFRS 17
7 9 (0.78%) NIST
7 9 (0.78%) Solvency II
8 8 (0.70%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.70%) EMIR
9 7 (0.61%) NCSC
9 7 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.44%) WCAG
11 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.26%) SEPA
12 2 (0.17%) PSD2
12 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 352 (30.66%) Docker
2 15 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.17%) Firmware
4 2 (0.17%) Terminal Server
4 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.17%) vSphere
5 1 (0.087%) HDFS
5 1 (0.087%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 337 (29.36%) Kubernetes
2 174 (15.16%) Terraform
3 43 (3.75%) Ansible
4 42 (3.66%) Grafana
5 27 (2.35%) Kibana
6 18 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.22%) Prometheus
8 13 (1.13%) Argo
9 5 (0.44%) Puppet
10 4 (0.35%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.35%) Kubeflow
10 4 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.26%) Istio
12 2 (0.17%) Rancher
13 1 (0.087%) Nagios
Vendors
1 183 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.57%) Oracle
3 29 (2.53%) Google
4 28 (2.44%) Guidewire
5 21 (1.83%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.83%) SAP
5 21 (1.83%) Splunk
6 20 (1.74%) Dynatrace
7 19 (1.66%) OpenAI
8 18 (1.57%) BiZZdesign
9 13 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
9 13 (1.13%) MuleSoft
10 12 (1.05%) Atlassian
10 12 (1.05%) Duck Creek
11 11 (0.96%) IBM
11 11 (0.96%) Software AG
12 10 (0.87%) Fortinet
12 10 (0.87%) Palo Alto
13 8 (0.70%) OpenLink
13 8 (0.70%) VMware